Culpeper's complete herbal ... To which are ... annexed his English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy / Nicholas Culpeper.

  • Nicholas Culpeper
Date:
1814
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Credit: Culpeper's complete herbal ... To which are ... annexed his English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy / Nicholas Culpeper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    powder to every pound of Diachylon sim-1 breaks them, and cleanses them when they pie. It is of a most excellent ripen- \ are broken. Diachylon Magjmm. I ing nature. Cf^llegci] Take of mussilage of Raisins, 1 ^ P , T,. ^ Vf •• 1 Tv/r II ^4. T • j I J^mplaistrum Diap/KEmcon hot. fat Iigs, Mastich, Mallow-roots, Linseeds, | ^ n and Fenugreek-seeds, Bird-lime, the juice! „ t>^ ^ Bax two of Orris and Squills, of each twelve drams : \ and an half, GEsypus or oil of Sheep's feet i j ^ oses and Isard, of each one an ounce and an half. Oil of Orris, Chamo- | em toget ler, and add pulp of mel, Dill, of each eight ounces, litharge of i j ounces, flesh of Gold in fine powder one pound. Turpentine ! re me an ounce, then Wox. powders following: take of Bread P0W( I twice baked, steeped in Wine and dried, two ounces, Mastich an ounce, Frankin- cense Wormwood, red Roses, Spikenard, of each two drams and an half. Wood of three ounces, Per-Rozin, yellow Wax, of each two ounces, boil the oil with the mus- silages and juices to the consumption of the humidity, strain the oil from the faces, and by adding the Litharge boil it to its con- sistence; then add the Rozin and Wax;lrp^^f’ aee, yri, washed Aloes, A cam lastly, it being removed from the fire, add ^ ^'ucies o ja la os(. ata, and Earth of the Turpentine, CEsypus and Birdlime, make of them a plaister by melting them according to art. Culpeper.'] It dissolves hardness and in- flammations. Diachylon magnum cum Gummi. j a. i ~ i College.-] Take of Bdellium, Sagapenum, “ *° Lemnos, Calamus Aromaticus, of each one dram, Labdanum three ounces, mix them and make them into a plaister according to art. Culpeper.] It strengthens the stomach and liver exceedingly, helps fluxes, apply Amoniacuin, of each two ounces, dissolved Diaphcenicon cold. in Wine, and added to the mass of Diachy-} College.] Take of Wax four ounces. Ship Ion magnum : first boil the gums being dis- j Pitch five ounces, Labdanum three ounces solved, to the thickness of Honey. * and an half. Turpentine an ounce and an Culpeper] This is the best to dissolve | half. Oil of Roses one ounce, melt these, hard swellings of all the three. I and add pulp of Dates almost ripe, boiled Diachylon compositum^ sive Emplaistrum e 1 in austere Wine four ounces, flesh of Mussilaginibus. | Quinces in like manner boiled, Bread twice Or, A Plaister of Mussilages. | baked often steeped in red Wine and dried. College.] Take of mussilages of the | of each an ounce, Styrax Calamitis, Acacia, middle bark of Elm, Marsh-malloAV roots, | unripe Grapes, Balaustines, yellow Sanders, Linseed, and Fenugreek seed, of each four i troches of Terra Lemnia, Myrrh, Wood of ounces and an half, oil of Chamomel, Lilies, \ Aloes, of each half an ounce, Mastich, red and Dill, of each an ounce and an half, t Roses, of each an ounce and an half, austere Ammoniacum, Galbanum, Sagapen, Opo- \ Wine as much as is sufficient to dissolve the panax, of each half an ounce, new Wax | juices, make it into a plaister according to twenty ounces. Turpentine two ounces, | art. Saffron two drams, dissolve the Gums in \ Culpeper.] It strengthens the belly and Wine, ana make it into a plaister according! liver, helps concoction in those parts, and to art. . I distribution of humours, stays vomiting and Culpeper.] It ripens swellings, and ^fluxes.